Human development and social cohesion are not only important component, but essential premises and powerful drivers of sustainable development also.

Each year, companies around the world spend huge amounts for the informatisation of their activities, but the increase of the investments in this field doesn’t imply always the increase of the work productivity and profit with the same rate. The ”productivity paradox” of information...

Joining the professional standards (financial audit, evaluation etc.) – required – with the ISO management standards (quality, environment, occupational safety and health, etc.) – considered voluntary – support organizations in meeting mandatory requirements and market penetration....

The main objective of the present approach is, first of all, to analyse the "transaction costs" concept and then to prove scientifically the relation transaction costs – institutions.

The actual social-economic context determined major changes and transformations in the strategically and operational plan at the economic system and organization level. The major actual concern regards working capital insurance necessary on a short and medium period, the market quota maintenance...

The paper presents the knowledge concept in both classical and contemporary vision and analyze the knowledge as a production factor. In the same time, the paper illustrates the influence of the knowledge over the higher education system, through some specific elements (Internet, electronic book,...

This paper presents the two most important factors that influence the development of quality management in education: the globalization and the sustainable development. The four well known quality management principles (Deming) can be adapted and implemented in the education system case, too.

The article analyzes the necessity for studying the efficiency in the education area. In the same time, the discussion is focused on the main perspective of efficiency’s analysis: classical perspective and systemic perspective. This paper is an integrated part of the research program Micro and...

This article approaches present debates at the international level (the European Commission Untidier and DeSeCo Project of the OECD) regarding learning to learn competence and some concrete initiative developed starting from these debates.